§ Miss Maynardasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in the light of the decision in Campbell and Fell by the European Court of Human Rights on 28 June, he has made arrangements to ensure that the guarantees of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights apply to any prisoner charged with an offence of mutiny or incitement to mutiny or doing gross personal violence to a prison officer; and whether, in the light of that decision, he proposes to restore to the other four prisoners involved in that incident the remission that they lost at the Albany board of visitors adjudication in September 1976.
§ Mr. HurdChairmen of all boards of visitors and all prison governors were advised on 12 July that the guarantees of article 6 of the European convention on human rights apply to prisoners charged with an offence of mutiny, incitement to mutiny or doing gross personal violence to an officer.
No action is being taken to restore remission which prisoners involved in the incident at Albany prison were ordered to forfeit by the board of visitors in 1976.
§ Miss Maynardasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he proposes to take with regard to the restoration of lost remission for any prisoner adjudicated upon in respect of mutiny or incitement to mutiny or doing gross personal violence to a prison officer where the guarantees of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights were not made available to those prisoners, when they are still serving sentences of imprisonment.